Nordic Art Agency Podcast

The Winter Exhibition is our second exhibition of local artists opened which opened in November. The initial Open Call invited multi-disciplinary artists from Skåne and Greater Copenhagen to apply and the exhibition was juried by the Nordic Art Agency and  curated by Gry Hammarlund & Lars Herman Hegg.

Artists Exhibiting Include:  Stella Lindhagen, Magbule Lutolli, Anne Louise Blicher, Cesilia Per, Eva Myrdal Linstow, Gitte Valentiner - Branth, Jingbei Zheng, Jennifer Idrizi, Johanna Landin , Jonna Wakeham Ölund, Frida Rådlund, Lea Norrman Firus, Matteo Rosa and Mia Hultgren

On this podcast episode Art Advisor Ebba Davidson and Gallery Founder Juliet Rees Nilsson are in conversation with three of the participating artist, Lea Firus, Jennifer Idrizi and Mia Hultgren discussing their exhibited works and unique artist prcatices.

The Winter Exhibition is open 7 days a week at the Nordic Art Agency at Hansa from 10:00 - 19:00 until January 20th.

View & purchase all works in the exhibition by visiting, nordicartagency.com/NAA

Canadian floral abstract artists Bobbie Burgers joins host Juliet from her studio in Vancouver for an in depth conversation into her current practice, her compulsion to create and paint and how the passing of time continues to inform her artwork and compositions.

We have long admired Bobbie's large scale flora works and most recently her smaller scale collage and sculptural pieces and this podcast is an opportunity to deconstruct how she views her own work and the challenges and joy which she experiences in the studio.  

Careers are often guided by opportunity, discipline and determination and Bobbie's childhood experiences and early success offered her the potential to experience her live as an artist infused with nature, water and her environment.  

We very much look forward to welcoming Bobbie Burgers to the Nordic Art Agency in the future.

http://bobbieburgers.com/

On this podcast Juliet Rees-Nilsson introduces  two international artists and their current bodies of work, their artistic practices and solo exhibitions.

Victoria Curling Eriksson is a British painter  who works with minimal abstract land and seascapes. We have represented Victoria at the Nordic Art Agency since 2021 and this is her first solo exhibition to be held in our new gallery location.  'Visual Atmosphere' features 19 oil on canvas paintings which centres around the emotion response and connection made when fully present and immersed in skies, landscape and the ocean.

Our current guest artist is Jingbei Zheng, a ceramicist from Bejing, China.  'Your Fragility' is a series of 6 unglazed minimal clay vessels articulated with a crack like crevices, which consciously highlight the value of imperfection.  Jingbei Zheng is an industrial designer who approaches her practice and material with scientific and theoretical study.

Both exhibitions will be exhibited at the Nordic Art Agency until the end of December.  You can view both the 'Visual Atmosphere' and 'Your Fragility digital catalogues online.

You can follow Victoria Curling Eriksson on Instagram and Jingbei Zheng.

The art world is an ever evolving industry spurred on by technology & our desire to access artworks freely from the comfort of our own homes. Innovation continues to refine the industry & at the forefront of this are many artists driven platforms which increasingly eliminate the gallerist and connect the artists directly to the client online.

Altamira is one of the latest artist driven platforms that is changing the rules. On this podcast  Juliet Rees - Nilsson is in conservation with the Altamira’s Founder and CEO Michael Facchinello.  Altamira takes a slightly different approach to how artists can influence & impact the sites content. It offers independent curatorial insight to collectors bringing together artists, fans, and critics together in a space without gatekeepers and pretension.

You can follow Altamira on Instagram & learn more about the Pink Bison Art Prize 2023.  The two part blog Death of the Gallerist, written by Juliet and originally published in 2018, can be found online by visiting the Nordic Art Agency.

The NAA X Summer Exhibition is the first time that the Nordic Art Agency has collaborated with local artists from Malmö and the Greater Copenhagen region.  Inspired by the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition held each year in London since 1796, an artist open call was held for a group exhibition in the Spring.

In a new separate gallery location, dedicated to emerging and established local artists, we curated a multi - disciplinary exhibition which opened on June 3rd and is free to explore 7-day a week.  The exhibition in is a busy commercial environment, with no real gallery presence or interaction required, just an opportunity to explore, absorb and reflect upon the art, sculpture, photography, weaving and fiber art. The exhibition features 11 artists including, Lucas Nagel, Julia Hallström Hjört, Lotta Blanking, Josefin Åberg, Lars Herman Hegg and Annie Weibull.

Together with co-host Lars Herman Hegg, Gallery Consultant and Technician, this podcast explore the motivation behind the exhibition curation, an insight into five of the featured artist's practices and their personal response.  Lars is in conversation with five participating artists; Swedish fiber artist  Mia Hultgren, Scottish collage artist John Atherton, Swedish painter Emil Carlsjö, Danish Mixed media artist Anne Gammelgaard and Troels Aagaard.

You will hear a mixture of accents, Norwegian, Danish, Sweden and shared experiences, very much in the sprit of the international mindset of the Nordic Art Agency and is an audible insight into the diversity of the exhibition and artists selected.

You can get in touch directly with Lars ideas for future local artist driven exhibition and collaborations.  All artworks can be view and purchased online .

Details of forthcoming exhibition mentioned by artist Troels Aagaard can be found here.  

This episode was recorded in the gallery a few hours before the launch of   'A True Story' a solo exhibition by British collage artist Jo Hummel. Gallery Founder Juliet and Co - Host Ebba Davidsson decided to seize the opportunity to document these visiting artist.

This very impromptu discussion between  Jo and British abstract painter Sara Dare captures a moment, when after the pandemic, there is a sense of euphoria as artists are able to once again travel and be present in the gallery.  At times the recording quality isn't brilliant, but hopefully the atmosphere and joy is captured!

The conversation covers all aspects of Jo Hummel and Sara Dare's practice, material and exploration with in their painting and collage and how connection play an important role in the lives as artists. We also discuss the exhibition  'A True Story' and the body of work Sara Dare created for our current International Art Pop Up.

The solo exhibition 'A True Story' will be at the Nordic Art Agency Gallery until May 26th and the International Art Pop Up until June 23rd.  View the artists profiles of Jo Hummel and Sara Dare and all available artworks.

Mentioned in this podcast are artists and curators who collaborate with Jo Hummel and Sara Dare:

Karolina Albricht
Dominic Beattie
Tom Wilmott

On this episode Juliet is in conversation with Guest Artist Olivia Babel.

Olivia is a French fiber artist who is based in Lyon and works exclusively with contemporary tapestries. We were initially drawn to her work and unique compositions which reflect origin, cartology and the environment and invited Olivia to exhibit in our current International Art Pop Up.

In this conversation we explore the emotional connections found in Olivia work and her use of material and hand-weaving practice.  All her works are created on the loom using natural fibres, twine, ribbon and velvet exploring texture and rhythms through weaving.

You can view five of Olivia's fiber art pieces at our International Art Pop Up until June 23rd or online by visiting her artist page.  You can also discover more works by Olivia on her own instagram account.

Visit the Nordic Art Agency gallery on Artsy where we have also added the works featured in the current exhibition.

Our sixth International Art Pop Up has opened in our fabulous new gallery location in the heart of Malmö.  In this podcast, the first of Season 3, join Juliet in conversation with Ebba Davidsson, Art Consultant and  Visual Assistant as they discuss the curation of the latest exhibition of international art, sculpture and tapestry, the creation of artist's studio videos and the solo exhibitions planned for the coming months.

As well as being the creative lead on the video installations rooms at the gallery, Ebba is also producing a podcast based on visitors and collectors voices and experiences at the exhibition.  You can send voice message for the podcast  to our gallery instagram account @nordicartagency sharing your perspectives, impressions and highlights of our new gallery space.

All information relating to the International Spring Art Pop Up, Catherine Ludeau's solo exhibition Icône, Hugh Chapman's exhibition Into the Light and the forthcoming exhibitions by Jo Hummel and Bea Sarrias solo exhibition can be found on our website. 

For our final episode of season 2 we are looking to the future of the art world and are joined by the Co-Founder of Nfinitymark Kirsten Hinder.

Kirsten Hinder's art-tech company is bridging the gap between analogue art and the digital crypto art space with an exciting technology that creates a digital signature for physical artwork, enabling it to exist on the blockchain.

NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have been around since 2017 but following the recent Christie's auction in Asia, where NFT sales reached over 100 Million dollars, the digital art space has become more present and more relevant to artists, art collectors and gallerists.

On the podcast Kirsten helps to decode this new art space and explores how a digital record of provenance and artists records can add value to art work and become a valuable digital asset alongside the physical artwork. You can view some of the artists, galleries and collectors already working with this art tagging technology over on Nfinitymark's instagram.

The Nordic Art Agency is delighted to be collaborating with Nfinitymark as the first gallery in Sweden to tag all artwork sold in our International Spring Art Pop Up in 2022. 

Interested? Get in touch with Kirsten for more information.

This is the second episode in our two-part special Sculpture Series.  On this podcast Juliet is in conversation with British bronze expert, restorer and conservator Lucy Branch. 

Lucy comes from a family of restorers and art historians and is incredibly passionate about bronze public statues, sculpture and historical architectural features.  Her education, knowledge and experience is vast and she shares her understanding of metals, chemistry, research and practical elements which all are part of her work as a accredited member of the Institute of Conservations.

Her work as a Director at Antique Bronze has led her to run high profile conservation projects such as Nelson's Column, Buckingham Palace and the Queen Victoria Memorial.

As well as her invaluable work with public statues and sculpture she is also a successful published author of a series of art history based fiction novels, which are credited as Adventures for Art Lovers, and nonfiction bronze related publications.

Lucy is also the host of the Sculpture Vulture podcast and has worked on sculptures by both Simon Gudgeon and Hugh Chapman who are represented by the Nordic Art Agency.

This is the first in a two part series on sculpture and sculpture conservation and restoration.

We are introducing British emerging sculptor Hugh Chapman.  This is a raw and honest introduction into the artist's journey of Hugh.  His conceptual work is engaging and incredibly emotive.  His sculptural forms are complex with elegant waxing modern patinas which feel luxurious and organic.

Our conversation is an investigation into the challenges faced by a sculptor and how partnerships with foundries and experts in restoration and conversation are incredibly important to the completion of projects and maintenance of works.

You can view Hugh Chapman's work on his artist's page on our website and all the sculptures discussed by Hugh and Henry Moore, Tony Cragg, Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley will be featured on our Nordic Art Agency Instagram.

Hugh's work will be unveiled at our Winter Art Pop Up at Hansa which launches in November and you can follow Hugh Chapman on Instagram to view more works.

On this podcast episode, Juliet introduces emerging British abstract artist Victoria Curling Eriksson. Landscapes dominate Victoria’s paintings and her compositions are minimal with multiple fine layers of oil which develop the depth of colour and emotive modus of her work.

Her paintings relate to simple motifs with polychromatic tones, gently graduating from one colour band to another. Fields and seascapes dominate the painting and the horizontal orientation of the canvas lends itself to the vertical undulating layers of colour and texture.

Follow Victoria Curling Eriksson on Instagram and view her next series of landscape paintings at our Winter Art Pop Up as part of our Hansa Loves Art concept, opening in November.

Both the Nordic Art Agency and Victoria will be exhibiting at the Affordable Art Fair 2021  in Stockholm, from 13th - 17th  October, so access your complimentary Private View and Art After Work tickets now online.

Images of work referred to in the podcast by Victoria can be viewed on the Nordic Art Agency instagram.

This Bonus Episode features news of some exciting gallery exhibitions happening in August-September in Malmö and London, featuring four international artists who have been guests on the podcast.

Interior Souls is a new exhibition at the Nordic Art Agency gallery in Malmö and features nine new paintings of iconic interiors by architectural painter Bea Sarrias.  Join Juliet for the Vernissage on Friday 27th August at the gallery for art, drinks and conversation. Due to Covid 19 guidance, registration is essential if you wish to attend the event.  The digital exhibition catalogue can also be viewed online

Five paintings by Frédéric Blaimont will also be shown in the small gallery during the Interior Souls exhibition.

Studio Response: [#1] a new exhibition at the prestigious Saatchi Gallery in London, which opened this week, featuring our exclusive artists Jo Hummel and Sara Dare.  The exhibition is free and will be open until September  9th,  well worth a visit!

This episode features Eric Grech as the voice of French figurative artist Frédéric Blaimont. It is the first time we have experimented with our podcast guest being represented as an actor and the whole experience was quite interesting!

Frédéric Blaimont is an observer of the everyday characters who are found in the banalest of situations. Anonymous figures emerged through his painting as he remains curious about his contemporaries.

His paintings will allow you to leisurely criticise the supposed delinquencies, flaws, and inconsistencies found in society.  In contrast, the paintings feel smooth, almost delicately and restfully executed. The subdued pastel palettes, plain backgrounds, and monochromatic play make the figures almost feel poetic.

Frédéric paintings are profiles of accuracy, with a subtle dusting of condemnation. He captures men and women; exploring our relationships with bodies, with food, and the unavoidable issue of excess and overconsumption.

Find Frédéric Blaimont on Instagram and on the @nordicartagencypodcast where we have featured several of the works discussed in the podcast.

We are delighted to represent Frédéric Blaimont exclusively at the Nordic Art Agency and look forward to exhibiting a series of images at the Nordic Art Agency in our exhibition Interior Souls launching at the end of August 2021.

Our guest on this episode of the podcast is the Director of the Copenhagen Photo Festival 2021. We are currently facing a cultural battle as the global pandemic has left the consumption of art in galleries, museums and exhibitions in very uncharted waters. 

The Copenhagen Photo Festival,  which was hosted between June 3th - June 13th, launched at a time when Copenhagen city had only very recently reopened after an extended lockdown.  The Director of the Copenhagen Photo Festival, Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen joins Juliet in conversation to explore the philosophy behind the festival, the uncertainty which faced the launch of the exhibition this year due to the pandemic, and the institutional challenges which are impacting the art world in general.

The successes of the festival very much lie within its ethos of inclusivity, connectivity and the offering of a shared global immersive experience.  How we currently consume culture is discussed as well as the six participants in this year's solo exhibition, and the galleries, art institutions and museums partnering with the festival.

Offical Partner events and exhibitions are continuing until 29th August and you can discover more of what is available to visit.

The Nordic Art Agency is currently exhibiting and a photographic exhibition by Natalie Christensen, Semblances of Boundaries & Thresholds at our Malmö gallery until the end of July. You can view this exhibition's digital catalogue and recent virtual gallery event online.

View images from the Copenhagen Photo Festival by visiting our Instagram @nordicartagencypodcast and or follow the @nordicartagency gallery on Instagram.

A slight departure from the normal guests we invite on this episode of the podcast.  Rather than an artist or an art influencer, we are in conversation with visual influencer Niki Brantmark, founder of the phenomenally successful award-winning blog MyScandinavianHome.com and best-selling author of three interior and lifestyle publications.

MyScandinavianHome.com is a daily blog with over half a million page views per month and 360K followers on Instagram.  Over the past decade, the blog has featured homes and interiors from all over the Nordics providing a visual feast of the Scandinavian aesthetic.

Art and interiors function in parallel to enhance the environment and experience within a home.  Niki shares her understanding and experience surrounding lighting, materials, colour pallets which define the Nordic interiors and very much the Scandinavian approach to life.

Placing art in a home is as important as understanding the light sources, flow and function of a space and we hope this conversation provides some inspiration from Scandinavia, via two British ex-pats!

Visit our Podcast Instagram to view images from Niki's Blog and @nordicartagency to view the gallery.

Tom Lohner's paintings are very much like the artist himself, bold, dynamic, entertaining and fearless. During a whirlwind art career over the last twenty years, Austrian pop surrealist artist Tom Lohner has achieved huge success as a painter, a creative brand, as a gallery owner, and most recently as a creator of the first NFTs to placed in a museum collection.

In this podcast we discuss Tom's artist journey, his collaboration with Hard Rock Cafe, The Baker House Gallery and Jaguar cars.  He also walks us through his creative practice and how his multidimensional approach to his artistry has enabled an evolution in his painting style and artist's brand.

You can follow  Tom Lohner on Instagram and also view his website. Discover more about the Baker House Gallery and discover more about their exhibitions and location in Graz.

Tom Lohner's zest for life, music and art is infectious and this conversation hopefully is inspiring for young emerging artists.

Spanish artist Bea Sarrias is obsessed with the architecture that surrounds her in her home city of Barcelona and the iconic international modernist and rationalist architects.

Bea paints portraits of spaces and not buildings and the elements of composition, light and shade and perspective are essential to her painting practice in order to create the soul and narrative of the architecture found in her work.

As a recent addition to the Nordic Art Agency's stable of artists, Bea is our first non-figurative or abstract artist.  This podcast seeks to understand why,  following her studies in Fine Art at the University of Barcelona, architecture has been her preferred and only subject matter.

With commission projects for Nato Headquarters in Brussels and numerous international solo exhibitions, Bea is an established artist who works hard to continuously evolve her approach to colour, composition and understanding of industrial design and architecture.

Follow Bea Sarrias on her Instagram and view her artist's profile on the Nordic Art Agency website.

Images of iconic buildings and paintings by Bea discussed on the podcast can be viewed on our @nordicartagencypodcast Instagram account.

Exciting British abstract painter and installation artist Sara Dare is the guest on this episode of the podcast.

Sara Dare typically works on a large-scale using paper, linen and canvas combined with a range of mediums, selected for their viscosity and finish, such as ink, oil, emulsion and acrylic. 

Her paintings seek an evocative experience or visceral negotiation with the viewer, initially playful or peaceful followed by a sense of unease or tension.  Connecting to her painting on a physical or emotional level can also lead to a sense of unsettlement. Sara confesses in our conversation to almost sabotaging elements of beauty or perfection in favour of an authentic, human and historical practice developed through her use of colour, brushwork and material.

The Nordic Art Agency is delighted to represent Sara Dare exclusively in Scandinavia and you can view more of her work over on her Instagram.

We shall be exhibiting Sara Dare's painting at our Spring Art Pop Up at Hansa from April 30th - May 30th where we shall feature a new series of nine artworks alongside other international painters.

Follow the Nordic Art Agency gallery on Instagram to discover more about our artists and exhibitions. We would also love for you to rate our podcast so that more people can find us and learn more about the international contemporary artists that we represent.

In this episode, we were delighted to be joined by Alexandra Fried and Alexandra Herlitz who, together, host the podcast Konsthistoriepodden a Swedish Art History podcast.  Both are currently senior lecturers at Gothenburg University in the department of Cultural Science specialising in specific periods of Art History.

The Konsthistorienpodden discusses the process, ownership and reception of well-known artworks and covers a diverse roster of artists from a broad spectrum of time periods. Most of all, it reveals the unknown twists and tales that lay behind many of the lives of the artists and their acclaimed artworks.

In our conversation, we discuss the value of understanding or being able to deconstruct artworks of historical importance and how that impacts how we view contemporary art. We also explore the importance of the narrative behind contemporary and historical artists and the value of historical art in modern culture and society.

You can listen to the Konsthistorienpodden on most podcast platforms. Also, you can follow Alexandra Fried and Alexandra Herlitz and their insightful podcast and discover more art history adventures on Instagram and on Facebook.

Please follow the Nordic Art Agency Podcast and the Nordic Art Agency on Instagram and be sure to subscribe to the podcast and never miss an episode of Season 2.

Marta Lafuente is a figurative painter based in  Barcelona.  She has developed a unique mixed media style and creates memorable and emotional paintings which touch on the everyday encounter and forgotten moments.

In the podcast, she discusses her painting practice and dedication to her instinctive process, her work as a Professor of Drawing at the Universitat de Belles Arts de Barcelona and her award-winning animation films.

Marta has a true artist's soul and expresses her artwork and creative practice in a moving manner, as a complex and emotional process of evolution, mistakes and revisiting the past.

We have represented Marta's work exclusively in Scandinavia since 2017 and are delighted to share new works this Spring on her artist's page on the Nordic Art Agency website.

You can also view the short animation films discussed in the podcast, Deep and La Boite on  Vimeo.

Marta Lafuente can be followed on her Instagram and a recent collection of her paintings can be found at the Nordic Art Gallery or on Artsy.

In this episode of the podcast, we join photographer Natalie Christensen in her Santa Fe studio.  With over 51,000 Instagram followers Natalie Christensen's career has been one very much born online and driven by a thriving organic digital audience.

Architecture is the main subject matter of her images as she is intrigued by line, form, structure and what lies beyond the edges of an image.  Her photographs deliver vibrant narratives that are both uplifting and reflective.

Natalie Christensen exhibits in Europe and the US  and was one of five invited photographers at The National: Best of Contemporary Photography, Fort Wayne Museum of Art and was recently named one of “Ten Photographers to Watch” at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art.

You can find Natalie Christensen on Instagram and her collaborative partner Jim Eyre.

We are delighted to represent Natalie exclusively in the Nordics and currently have two of her works exhibited at our Winter Art Pop Up until December 31st 2020.

Please send your suggestion of artists or art influencers who you would like to hear on the podcast for 2021.

Our podcast guest is the delightful Modupeola Fadugba, a young multi-disciplinarian artist who draws from her vast global travels and academic background.

Modupeola holds a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware, a Masters in Economics from the University of Delaware and a Masters in Education from Harvard University but her heart and passion is deeply rooted in visual learning and responses.

In her short six-year career as an artist, she has created powerful and beautiful bodies of work which touches on societal and political diversity, community, female empowerment and the artwork through the swim stories and the synchronised swimming.  Her paintings are featured in impressive museums and private collection around the globe.

In our conversation, Modupeola joins us from Philidelphia where she is currently completing her residency at the Smithsonian. We explore her painting practice, use of materials and the impact of her life growing up in Togo, Uganda, Nigeria and UK.  She is a brilliant observer and combines her intellect and warmth to establish human value and narrative effortlessly in her impactful artwork.

With exhibitions in Paris, London and Accra, we hope to welcome her to Scandinavia in the future.  You can view all her work on her website and on the Nordic Art Agency Instagram.

Welcome to the wonderful (and slightly alternative) world of Danish photographer Lars Daniel.

Lars Daniel is always joyfully reasserting and contradicting initial responses to his photography, and this conversation is no different.

As a conceptual photographer, Lars Daniel sees the human form and the environment in which they exist in his images as otherworldly, dreamlike and somewhat removed from reality.  All literal meaning is therefore lost and any alternative view is open to be experienced. The BIG SLEEP series, Cultural Baggage II and Freedom & Happiness are all images which intrigue and require contemplation.

You can view Lars Daniel's and current installation at HANSA Malmö on the second floor as part of are HANSA LOVES ART concept until the end of November 2020.

All prints are available in a limited edition of  10 + 1 AP printed on matte Hahnemühle paper, mounted & framed in handcrafted, dark solid smoked oak frames and available to view and purchase online.  Contact the gallery for complimentary international shipping.

British artist Christabel Blackburn won Sky Art's Portrait Artist of the Year earlier in 2020 with her minimal and stripped back contemporary portraiture style. Christabel's compositions typically include flat planes of colour, architectural aspects, simplistic interiors with limited details balancing of context, reduction and intimacy.

In the podcast, she discusses her journey as an artist and her recent experience painting music legend Nile Rodgers, founder of the 70s band Chic, which now hangs in the Royal Albert Hall in London.

A must watch is the brilliant final of Sky Art's Portrait of the Year, which was an incredible event, filmed in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

We are delighted that Christabel Blackburn has recently joined the Nordic Art Agency and we will exhibit three of her works in our exhibition FACES//PLACES which opens on Friday, October 9th in our Malmö gallery.

Follow Christabel Blackburn over on Instagram and watch her portrait painting tutorial in collaboration with Partnership Editions.

Catherine Ludeau is a French abstract artist who works within a minimalist style in resin on canvas. Her career as a designer and artist has spanned over many decades and has evolved in recent years to a pure reduction of natural elements informed by the practice of Zen, repetition and instinctive emotional responses.

Currently in her studio in Paris, Catherine shares her painting process and how resin has informed her recent bodies of work.

You can follow Catherine on Instagram to view her recent works. 

The Nordic Art Agency has a selection of resin on canvas artworks by Catherine which are available to view in our gallery and we shall be hosting a solo exhibition Infinite Spaces in 2021 in the gallery.

In this episode of the Nordic Art Agency Podcast we are in conversation with Munich based abstract artist Frederic Paul.  We signed Frederic Paul to the Nordic Art Agency Gallery in 2018 having connected with his whimsical, emotive paintings with tonal graduation and elements of layered three-dimensionality.

Heavily influenced by his roots in Asia, Frederic Paul represents a fresh, entrepreneurial approach to his career as an artist and painter showing considerable maturity, despite being in his 20s, and has complete conviction in his creative practice and use of materials.

Having exhibited in numerous solo and groups exhibition in the UK, the US and extensively in Europe, we are delighted to be welcoming Frederic Paul to exhibit at the Nordic Art Agency in Malmö this August-September, in his first solo exhibition in Scandinavia.  BLOOM will be a continuation of his positive, vibrate and uplifting mixed media paintings incorporating oil, acrylic and hand-torn Chinese Rice Paper. The exhibition will also feature an abstract installation of fragmented elements.

Follow Frederic Paul on Instagram and you can also view one of his recent studio time-lapses here.

We are delighted to represent Frederic Paul exclusively in the Nordics.

In this episode, we are in conversation with the young British figurative artist Molly Brocklehurst who is based in South London. Molly graduated with a Masters in Fine Art from Wimbledon College of Arts in 2019 winning the Wimbledon Alumni Professional Award and was a finalist in the 2020 Signature Art Prize.

She hit the British art scene in brilliant fashion last year being named as one of Saatchi Arts Rising Stars of 2019 and exhibiting in February 2020 in the Maddox Gallery in Mayfair, London.

We are all about supporting fresh, talented, international female artists at the Nordic Art Agency and Molly is an exciting artist to watch.

In the podcast, Molly discussed the historical and nostalgic utopia depictions explored in her work as she gives new life to images uncovered in old black and white photographs discovered in flea markets or antique fairs. Rituals and ceremonies, costume and theatre also play a role in her striking muted pastel-painted canvases.

We are currently featuring two of Molly's paintings in our HANSA LOVES ART International Art Pop Up until July 25th 2020. Both works, Intrusion and Colony, are featured in our current digital exhibition catalogue and on our website.

Molly’s painting has already been featured in the Wing’s Private Collection in London and we are delighted to represent her in Scandinavia exclusively. We will also be featuring new work later this year in our group exhibition FACES which will take place in the Nordic Art Agency Gallery in Malmö in October.

You can discover more about Molly Brocklehurst by visiting her website and do also follow her on Instagram.

Enjoy!

Simon Gudgeon is one of Britain’s leading contemporary sculptors, possibly best known for the striking three-meter-tall bronze sculpture Serenity which stands on the shores of the Serpentine lake in London’s Hyde Park.

His career, in his words, has been "a series of very happy accidents", which has led to his monumental sculpture being featured in prominent international private collections and impressive public art placements. 

Simon is also the founder of Sculpture By The Lakes, a stunning park located in Dorset, England which is an abundance of nature, wildlife and sculpture.  Recently, as the park is currently closed, Simon has been documenting the walkways, viewpoints, gardens and artworks in a series of personal and informative videos which are available to view online.

In our conversation, Simon shares his journey as a painter and sculptor and how his childhood, filled with impressions from countryside and nature, inspired his artist's process and subject matter.

We shall be exhibiting three of Simon's sculptures in bronze, Luna, Bird of Happiness and Search For Enlightenment at our HANSA LOVES ART pop up at HANSA Malmö, which opens on 20th May - 27th June.

View Simon Gudgeon's artist page to view all three sculpture and larger works in situ.  The Nordic Art Agency are delighted to exclusively represent Simon in the Scandinavia.

Chelsea Davine is a British abstract artist who, over her twenty-year career, has created a mixed media painting practise which is a pure reflection of nature, balance and light.  She finds inspiration from the coast, the sea, the lines that criss-cross the landscape and mountainscapes.

As an artist, she is passionate about the material she obsesses over whether it be metal, oil, gold leaf or linen and during our conversation she explores how her artist practice has changed during the lockdown confinement in Barcelona, where her family and studio are based.

The art market is currently in unchartered territory as we record this podcast and it's fascinating to hear Chelsea Davine reflections, and in some ways, the much-needed regression and stillness that has occurred in her life as an artist, as all of a sudden everything has been simplified.

We also invite Chelsea Davine to discuss the works which will be exhibited at HANSA LOVES ART, our forthcoming Art Pop Up in Malmö which opens on Wednesday, May 20th.

You can check out Chelsea Davine on Instagram and on her website and over on her artist's page at the Nordic Art Agency.

Pablo de Gortari is a flamboyant and gregarious figurative contemporary portrait painter from Mexico City.

By mixing skills from illustration, animation and painting, his work combines the spontaneity of sketches with the delicacy of painting. 

Art for Pablo has always been a way to escape reality and his images and palettes are strongly influenced by fantasy and mythical elements. 

The characterisation of each portrait is Pablo's main focus; showcasing emotions and state of mind as each figurative work exists almost within their own unique narrative.  Inspired by Spanish portraiture from the 1600s Pablo brings his unique surrealist contemporary interpretation.

In our conversation, Pablo reflects how life now, being based in a studio in Stockholm, has impacted his work, technique and aesthetic.

Follow Pablo on Instagram and view his works in progress and studio images on his website.

View Pablo de Gortari's artist page over on the Nordic Art Agency website where you can view the works discussed, Leonor, Pernilla with the blue hair and Paolo, the young boy with his sea pony.
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On our next episode, we shall be in conversation with abstract artist Chelsea Davine.  Chelsea has been working from her Barcelona studio for 20 years creating paintings with her own decorative style and unique use of material.

Episode 5 of the Nordic Art Agency podcast features gallery Co-Founder and art entrepreneur Mikael Eskilsson.  Mikael, together with his partner Kalle, founded Galleri Lohme a fresh and innovative and contemporary gallery in Sweden.

In our conversation, we cover the ever-evolving art industry, art and tech, the benefit of an online Art Academy, striking a balance between the physical and virtual visual world and the impact of the global health crisis on the online art market.

You can find Galleri Lohme online where you can view their artists, exhibitions and Art Academy.

Follow Galleri Lohme on Instagram and also over on Artsy.

You can find the mentioned blog, The Death of The Gallerist over on our website where a two-part blog explores the changing landscape of art buying.

Our HANSA collaborative art pop up will hopefully be taking place later in the Spring and all details will be announced over on our Events page shortly.

Our next podcast in-conversation will feature artist Pablo de Gortari, a surrealist figurative artist from Mexico City.  He will be joining us from his new Stockholm studio and it promises to be a highly entertaining conversation, possibly and Aperol Spritz may well feature....

Please join us then, stay safe.

We are celebrating International Women's day and highlighting woman in art this month. This week we are in conversation with art influencer and art dealer Kathlene Fox-Davies.

Kathlene is Co-founder and Director of Black Box Projects, a London based contemporary art gallery specialising in photography and process-based photographic works.  She is a photography expert, art historian and curator, with over 16 years’ experience in the art world both in London and New York.

Kathlene began her career as a Sales Associate at Michael Hoppen Gallery before moving to Hasted Hunt in New York as Gallery Manager. On her return to London, Kathlene joined Halcyon Gallery in Mayfair as an art consultant. She later joined ATLAS Gallery as Associate Director, introducing and overseeing a programme of contemporary artists.

In 2014 Kathlene established her own art consultancy, Fox-Davies Contemporary, where she worked with a select group of clients helping to build and manage their collections. In 2017 she co-founded Black Box Projects, motivated to present world-class art and artists in a new way to the traditional gallery model. 

Her special interest is within community engagement through the gallery and arts programming, transparency in business, a desire to connect clients to the art, artists and art world, as well as providing a more personal collecting experience through the gallery. 

Kathlene is also a frequent contributor to Monocle Radio as a guest art expert, offering a commentary on the current arts headlines as well as reviews of gallery shows and art fairs.

You can follow Black Box Projects on Instagram @blackboxprojects

View all the photographers and artist discussed on the podcast.

Follow Kathlene on Instagram @Kittyfd

Our next podcast will be discussing our forthcoming Art Pop Up at HANSA in Malmö in collaboration with Galleri Lohme and we will be in conversation with gallerist Mikael Eskilsson.

Jo Hummel is a British abstract collage artist whose striking painted collages are both calming and captivating.  In this podcast, we explore Jo Hummel's unique painting practice as she explains the conscious - subconscious dance between motive and colour and what drives her process.

We also invite Jo Hummel to discuss Dear Painting, an abstract art exhibition that she has curated featuring her own work together with painting by eight brilliant established British artists.  The exhibition Vernissage will be held on Friday, March 6th from 17:00 - 20:00 at the Nordic Art Agency Malmö gallery, with artists Carol Robertson and Katie Pratt attending.

The exhibition will be open from March 7th - March 31st and the complete Digital Exhibition Catalogue of Dear Painting, is now available to view online.

An Online Gallery Store will also launch on March 6th for the duration of the exhibition.  All the artworks from the exhibition will be available to purchase (+ free shipping in the EU) until March 31st.

You can also ready the Gallery Blog written on Dear Painting, by Juliet featuring the foreward, as mentioned, by Katie Pratt.

We shall also be exhibiting Jo Hummel's work at Art Nordic in Copenhagen from March 27-20th, stand 112, so do please get in touch for complimentary tickets to the exhibition.

You can check out Jo Hummel on Instagram.

Our next podcast will be available on Friday, March 13th we will sharing news about, an exciting contemporary art gallery POP UP with Gallery Lohme at HANSA taking place this April in southern Sweden.

Hopefully, you will join us then.

Clare Celeste Börsch is a collage and paper artist who brings to life exquisite three dimensional installations of flora and fauna.  Her passion for the natural world was sparked by her an extraordinary childhood where she travelled extensively with her parents experiencing first-hand the beauty of rainforests, coral reefs and carpets of butterflies.

In this podcast episode, we invite Clare to discuss the current body of work she is creating for Biodiversity a solo gallery exhibition which opens at the Nordic Art Agency in May 2020. Clare has collaborated with Biodiversity Scientist Louisa Durkin to reflect more closely the current global crisis brought about by climate change and the direct impact upon nature, plant and animal species.

You can view images of Clare's work, the installations; Intimate Immensity and The Mushroom hunter and also her latest work in layered plexiglass by visiting her artist profile.

Clare's forthcoming solo exhibition in Sweden takes place from May 22nd - June 20th and you can find details of the Vernissage and Exhibition now. An online gallery store with all the artworks from the exhibition (+ free shipping in the EU) will go live on May 22nd, if you are unable to make it to Malmö.

We shall also be exhibiting Clare's work at Art Nordic in Copenhagen from March 27-20th, stand 112, so do please get in touch for complimentary tickets to the exhibition.

Do check out Clare Celeste Börsch on Instagram.

Our next podcast will be available on Friday, February 28th we will be in conversation with the incredibly talented British artist Jo Hummel.  Jo has curated a gallery exhibition entitled Dear Painting, featuring eight abstract painters exclusively for the Nordic Art Agency, hopefully, you will join us then.

Jay Pingree, an American figurative artist from New York, was invited to join the Nordic Art Agency in the Spring of 2019. We were initially drawn to his distorted abstract figures of commuters painted against a minimalist backdrop, which fully captured the perpetual motion and repetitive spirit of the daily commute.

We are delighted that Jay has agreed to be the first artist in conversation as the Nordic Art Agency embarks on new adventures in audio!  Our wish is that this brings those interested in Jay's work a little closer to his creative process and artistic vision. 

Read more about Jay's recent public commission and see images of the final installation on our recent gallery blog, Nine Commuters which also includes a short time lapse of Jay at work in his New Jersey Studio.

Jay's forthcoming solo exhibition in Sweden takes place from April 3rd - May16th and you can find details of the Vernissage and exhibition now.  We shall also be launching an online gallery store with all the available exhibition works (+free shipping in the EU) which will go live on April 3rd, if you are unable to make it to Malmö.

You can view Jay Pingree's current available work at the Nordic Art Agency and if you don't already follow us on Instagram please do, you can view posts on Jay and our other artists.

Also check out Jay Pingree, over on Instagram.

Our second podcast launches on Valentines Day, February 14th, and will feature Berlin based assemblage artists Clare Celeste Börsch, do hope you will you us.